A package with coolers containing 18 human heads was found at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on Monday. According to the New York Daily News, airport employees found a grisly surprise when they opened the mysterious package. Some of the...

Before he votes to confirm Obama terrorism czar John Brennan as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has a few rather touchy questions. Specifically, a letter published by Wired revealed that he asked Brennan...

A Kentucky sheriff who refused to enforce any new gun laws that he deemed unconstitutional says that the Second Amendment is “like the Bible” because “you either believe it or you don’t.” In a recent interview with...

Prince Albert of Monaco and his wife Princess Charlene have accepted an offer of damages from Britain’s Sunday Times over a 2011 story which had suggested she was reluctant to marry him. The royal couple were represented at London’s...

Women with a family history of breast cancer who are thought to be at greater risk of developing the disease could be offered drugs aimed at preventing it under draft guidelines published Tuesday. The National Institute of Health and Clinical...

One of the best connected canines in London met a grisly end this week after being killed in the revolving door of the office block where his owner worked at high society fashion magazine Tatler. Alan, a long-haired miniature dachshund, died on...

More than 700 veterans may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C due to improper use of insulin pens at a New York hospital. According to CNN, personnel at a Veterans’ Administration hospital in Buffalo, New York used the...

Egypt’s top court was on Tuesday to rule whether Egypt’s Islamist-dominated Senate should be dissolved as well as on the validity of a panel that wrote the country’s controversial constitution. In advance of the landmark...

China’s sovereign wealth fund, which has more than $480 billion in assets, could cut holdings of US Treasury Bonds as they are becoming a less attractive investment, state media said Tuesday. The Shanghai Securities News quoted Lou Jiwei,...

The push to provide firearms training to teachers has taken hold in Texas, where, as NBC News reported on Tuesday, hundreds of instructors are hitting the firing ranges. “We’ve had over 300 [teachers], and today adds up to 400...

The owner of a Utah smoothie shop is trying to teach liberal customers a lesson by charging them extra and donating their money to conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation. “I’m very open about it, very public about...

A woman stole a train on Tuesday and crashed it into an apartment building in Stockholm, Sweden, authorities told The Associated Press. The train drove approximately one mile before derailing, the report noted. It was not clear why there were...

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation. Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give...

The Atlantic‘s website has dropped a controversial paid advertorial from the Church of Scientology. TheNextWeb.com reported that as of midnight Eastern time, the Atlantic website was displaying a message saying the Scientology article had...

French President Francois Hollande called on Tuesday for pumping more investments in renewable energy projects to prepare for the post-oil era and to avoid global warming and very high oil prices. “If we don’t spend … we will...